Intergenerational Connectedness Quotes

“Knowing your generational story firms the ground upon which you stand. It makes your life, your struggles and triumphs, bigger than your lone existence. It connects you to a grand plotline.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

“Es difícil entenderse con las gentes de otra generación, aun cuando no quieran imponernos su modo de ver las cosas. Y en estos casos en que quieren hacernos ver con sus ojos, para que resulte medianamente bien el experimento, se necesita gran tacto y sensibilidad en los mayores y admiración en los jóvenes.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“I knew the importance of listening from my younger days spent with my own grandmother. She taught me the importance of listening, and not just listening as in hearing but also in making a true effort to understand what I was being told.”
― Murray Sinclair, Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation